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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday August 28, 2006 @08:11PM from the constant-chatter dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The All about Linux blog has a down-to-earth review of the latest Linux offering from Debian — Etch Beta 3 which optionally sports a very intuitive GUI installer. The review looks ar the pros and cons of Debian Etch Beta 3 as well as what the Debian team could do to make this not-for-profit Linux distribution even more popular."

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Re:More of the same. (Score:5, Funny)

by Reverend528 ( 585549 ) writes: on Monday August 28, 2006 @08:53PM (#15997366) Homepage

3 Years is an insanely long time. That's why I run debian sid, which has had a new release in the 3 minutes that it took me to read your post and reply to it.

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Re:More of the same. (Score:5, Funny)

by Reverend528 ( 585549 ) writes: on Monday August 28, 2006 @08:59PM (#15997396) Homepage

A modern kernel by default and official support for AMD64 are huge reasons to move to Etch.

Maybe, but by switching to 2.6, debian risks losing several users to slackware.

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